[FX.php List] How to send HTML emails in PHP

Thu Jan 24 13:20:56 MST 2008

Bob,

The default seems to have been PHPMailer in the past.  Although I am 
going to look at Swift as well.

The thing to remember is that email must be formatted properly. 
Otherwise, it is subject to the whims of email filters.  Also, when 
sending html mail, it is customary to also send a text version at the 
same time.  The email client at the recipient end makes the decsion 
which to display.

HTH,

J

J

At 2:03 PM -0600 1/24/08, Bob Patin wrote:
>I've got a client for whom I send automated emails from their 
>website; they're asking if I can add their logo to the email. I use 
>something called "sock_mail" which was given to me by a consultant, 
>and it's plain-text.
>
>Is there an easy way to send an HTML email from PHP? I tried taking 
>some HTML and putting it into an email body, but the message comes 
>back as HTML code rather than what it's supposed to look like when 
>displayed in an HTML email message.
>
>Instead of pretty HTML, I received this:
>
><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
>"<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
><html 
>xmlns="<http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta 
>http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" 
>/><title>Untitled Document</title></head><body><img 
>src="<http://comparisons.advantastar.com/images/logo.jpg>http://www.client.com/images/logo.jpg" 
>width="376" height="55" /></body></html>
>
>Any help would be mucho appreciated.
>
>Bob Patin
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